[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#962834: bcftools: Have dependency on Perl demoted to "recommended"

[Steffen Moeller]

Package: bcftools
Version: 1.10.2-2
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

The tools in bcftools that depend on Perl are only of secondary interest. For an improved efficiency in cloud and docker setups, please demote the dependency on Perl to a mere recommendation. Other executables of bcftools depend on Python that is even a suggestion, only. That sounds like a reasonable alternative.

Thanks!

This bug report emerged upon as discussion on the Debian Med Mailing list on June 15th, 2020.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages bcftools depends on:
ii  libc6    2.30-8
ii  libhts3  1.10.2-3
ii  perl     5.30.3-4
ii  zlib1g   1:1.2.11.dfsg-2

bcftools recommends no packages.

Versions of packages bcftools suggests:
ii  python                     2.7.17-2
pn  python-matplotlib          <none>
ii  python-numpy               1:1.16.5-5
ii  texlive-latex-recommended  2020.20200417-1

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